Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 58David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris Macmillan and Company, 1888 - English literature |
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... English colony began to arrive , visitors and visiting - cards came to Miss Compton in respectable num- bers . Old friends of her father's Doctor Lavergne was very caustic in his remarks about these amiably - dis- posed callers . " They ...
... English colony began to arrive , visitors and visiting - cards came to Miss Compton in respectable num- bers . Old friends of her father's Doctor Lavergne was very caustic in his remarks about these amiably - dis- posed callers . " They ...
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... English . ' " " The Doctor explained that , although he did not speak our language , he un- derstood it a little . " And , " added he , with a bow , " I am beginning to un- derstand the English character , for which I entertain the ...
... English . ' " " The Doctor explained that , although he did not speak our language , he un- derstood it a little . " And , " added he , with a bow , " I am beginning to un- derstand the English character , for which I entertain the ...
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... English life of public schools , universities , and Parliament gives peculiar facilities . Bobus and Cecil the third brother were sent to Eton : Sydney and Courtenay , the fourth , to Winchester , after a childhood spent in precocious ...
... English life of public schools , universities , and Parliament gives peculiar facilities . Bobus and Cecil the third brother were sent to Eton : Sydney and Courtenay , the fourth , to Winchester , after a childhood spent in precocious ...
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... English prejudices and abuses , but infuriated them by constant denunciations of slavery and by laughing at their lack of literature and cultivation . With India he also dealt often , his brothers ' connection with it giving him an ...
... English prejudices and abuses , but infuriated them by constant denunciations of slavery and by laughing at their lack of literature and cultivation . With India he also dealt often , his brothers ' connection with it giving him an ...
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... English revolution . The Tories replied , " We will take good care that the French shall not land and that Irishmen shall not rise , " and they did take the said good care , and they beat the Frenchmen through and through while Sydney ...
... English revolution . The Tories replied , " We will take good care that the French shall not land and that Irishmen shall not rise , " and they did take the said good care , and they beat the Frenchmen through and through while Sydney ...
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Page 316 - And there she lulled me asleep And there I dream'd — Ah! woe betide! The latest dream I ever dream'd On the cold hill side. I saw pale kings, and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried — "La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!
Page 17 - Cr. 8vo. 3$. 6d. each. WESTWARD Ho ! With a Portrait. HYPATIA. YEAST. ALTON LOCKE. Two YEARS AGO. HEREWARD THE WAKE. POEMS. THE HEROES; OR, GREEK FAIRY TALES FOR MY CHILDREN.
Page 316 - I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful - a faery's child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild.
Page 452 - That teaches me that all things 'whatsoever I would that men should do unto me I should do even so to them.' It teaches me further, to 'remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.
Page 388 - Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Page 320 - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
Page 115 - For it may be laid down as a maxim, that he who begins by presuming on his own sense, has ended his studies as soon as he has commenced them. Every opportunity, therefore, should be taken to discountenance that false and vulgar opinion, that rules are the fetters of genius. They are fetters only to men of no genius...
Page 452 - It teaches me, further, to remember them that are in bonds as bound with them. I endeavoured to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, I did no wrong, but right.
Page 80 - I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition THE PILGRIM FATHERS. of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no further than the instruments of their reformation.
Page 318 - Volition — so say metaphysicians from a want of smoking the second consciousness — Monsters — the Kraken — Mermaids — Southey believes in them — Southey's belief too much diluted — a Ghost story — Good morning — I heard his voice as he came towards me — I heard it as he moved away — I had heard it all the interval — if it may be called so. He was civil enough to ask me to call on him at Highgate.